I'd really love to see more of their personal lives, training, and stuff around school and the club. My favorite was the beginning of the season when they were dealing with recruiting and training new members. I think that over-all season 1 had a better mix of slice of life stuff with the Karuto matches than what we've been seeing lately.

I'd really love to see more of their personal lives, training, and stuff around school and the club. My favorite was the beginning of the season when they were dealing with recruiting and training new members. I think that over-all season 1 had a better mix of slice of life stuff with the Karuto matches than what we've been seeing lately.

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i don't know if this will be covered in chihayafuru 2, but after arata's and the queen's match chihaya & taichi and her karuta club, are training with another karuta club, at some camp.. that might be a bit more slice of life for u instead of going from match to match ^^

OMG episode 13 was AMAZING, I know i'm late for watching it but DAMN.
This is why I love this series sooooo much.
It had everything, it had drama, comedy, seriousness, touching moments, goosebumps moments.
EVERYTHING!
Loved it! Bring on ep 14!!!

Loved the first season, which I came across while browsing Crunchyroll late last year. Eagerly waited for the second season and now feeling withdrawal symptoms while they paused it for the moment... Interested to find out the connection between Arata and Shinobu, and always cheering on Mizusawa high school in their tournaments!

my group cosplayed for Chihayaru last year and we played some Karuta during the convention but we were just pretending since we only have one who can actually read the cards fast lol but we have the MIZUSAWA T shirt on

I'd really love to see more of their personal lives, training, and stuff around school and the club. My favorite was the beginning of the season when they were dealing with recruiting and training new members. I think that over-all season 1 had a better mix of slice of life stuff with the Karuto matches than what we've been seeing lately.

THIS. This is exactly what I've been feeling about Chihayafuru lately. I'm just glad Episode 13 brought back what Chihayafuru does best. As much I want that kind of tone to last, I'm sure after the match it'll disappear again.

But yes, I wish to see more of their personal lives as we are getting to love the characters more.

So far so good.

I like how it's just a card game and yet, it's so cool every single match.

I wish chihayafuru is more popular because it's really, really good.

I'm really enjoying season two.

The manga sells quite well, around 400000 copies per issue, up to 20 issues now. The first season of anime didn't sell that well but it almost broke even and as an advertisement for the manga I guess they felt that a second two-cour season was warranted. I'm glad they did! The manga costs approximately a tenth what the discs cost so 400000 books is like 40000 disc sales which would make it a top seller so the discs don't have to sell much for the production committee to make money.

I've bought the first series BDs and now all the soundtrack CDs for both series which are great! I've started collecting the manga (middle volumes are hard to find) and I've ordered the Blu Rays for season two, first box with episodes 1-12 comes out next month, comes with Daddy Bear and Snow Maru hand towels! Can't wait!

But yes, I wish to see more of their personal lives as we are getting to love the characters more.

So far so good.

I like how it's just a card game and yet, it's so cool every single match.

I wish chihayafuru is more popular because it's really, really good.

I'm really enjoying season two.

The manga sells quite well, around 400000 copies per issue, up to 20 issues now. The first season of anime didn't sell that well but it almost broke even and as an advertisement for the manga I guess they felt that a second two-cour season was warranted. I'm glad they did! The manga costs approximately a tenth what the discs cost so 400000 books is like 40000 disc sales which would make it a top seller so the discs don't have to sell much for the production committee to make money.

I've bought the first series BDs and now all the soundtrack CDs for both series which are great! I've started collecting the manga (middle volumes are hard to find) and I've ordered the Blu Rays for season two, first box with episodes 1-12 comes out next month, comes with Daddy Bear and Snow Maru hand towels! Can't wait!

Wow. Cool.

I plan to read the manga after season 2 finishes and read from where season 2 left off.

Episode 14 didn't go quite how I expected it, good though! Love the tension all the way to the end and then... someone gets to play finally... great!

And volume 17 of the manga, great! Won't spoil anything... but I got volumes 1-5, 17-20 and will finish getting ahead with 17-20 soon since it is so good. The motions implied by the manga are done very well. Beautifully drawn. Volume 1 in 18th printing!